Animal husbandry is the department of agriculture involved with animals which can be raised for meat, fiber, milk, eggs, or different products. It consists of every day care, selective breeding and the elevating of livestock. Husbandry has an extended history, beginning with the Neolithic revolution while animals had been first domesticated, from round 13,000 BC onwards, antedating farming of the primary crops. By the time of early civilizations consisting of historical Egypt, cattle, sheep, goats and pigs had been being raised on farms.

Birth of husbandry

The domestication of cattle changed into pushed with the aid of using the want to have meals available while looking changed into unproductive. The ideal traits of a home animal are that it ought to be beneficial to the domesticator, ought to be capable of thrive in his or her company, ought to breed freely, and be smooth to tend.

Domestication changed into now no longer a unmarried event, however a method repeated at numerous durations in distinctive places. Sheep and goats had been the animals that observed the nomads with inside the Middle East, whilst livestock and pigs had been related to greater settled communities. The first wild animal to be domesticated changed into the dog. Half-wild dogs, possibly beginning with younger individuals, might also additionally had been tolerated as scavengers and killers of vermin, and being obviously % hunters, had been predisposed to come to be a part of the human % and be part of with inside the hunt.

Prey animals, sheep, goats, pigs and livestock, had been gradually domesticated early with inside the records of agriculture Pigs had been domesticated in Mesopotamia round 13,000 BC and sheep followed, a while among 11,000 and 9,000 BC. Cattle had been domesticated from the wild aurochs with inside the regions of contemporary-day Turkey and Pakistan round 8,500 BC. A cow changed into a remarkable gain to a villager as she produced greater milk than her calf needed, and her electricity can be positioned to apply as a running animal, pulling a plough to boom manufacturing of crops, and drawing a sledge, and later a cart, to carry the produce domestic from the field.

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Ann Jose
Journal of Animal Sciences and Livestock Production